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Top 5 Most Common Senior Fitness Mistakes
Mike Rosswww.Balance-Exercises.com
This report is solely for educational and informational purposes and is not medical advice, nor isit intended to diagnose or treat an illness. The information contained herein is not meant to be asubstitute for medication, medical treatment, or medical advice from your doctor. Consult a physician before engaging in any new exercise program. The author, balance-exercises.com, andBreakthrough Fitness Systems, LLC disclaim any liability for harm directly or indirectly caused by the contents of this report.Copyright © 2009 Mike Ross
Top 5 Most Common Senior Fitness Mistakes
As an exercise physiologist at a hospital-based health club, I have theunique opportunity to observe the exercise habits of hundreds of senior citizens. Over the years, I have noticed that many people seem to makethe same mistakes. Here’s five of the most common.
#1 – No Variety
I have talked to many people who have been doing the exact sameexercises at the same intensity for years. We are all creatures of habit,and certainly it is mentally easier to do the same exercises all the time, but this lack of variety is really a bad idea.After you do an exercise for a while, your body adapts to it. That ishow you get in better shape. However, after the body adapts to a certainexercise at a certain intensity, if you keep doing the same thing day inand day out, your body has no incentive to keep improving.Meanwhile, as you do the same motions over and over again, you setyourself up for repetitive motion injuries like tendonitis.To avoid this, all you have to do is change your workout routineslightly every couple months. You can do new machines, newexercises, or new classes. Or you can do the same exercises andmachines but for a different amount of time or reps. You can also do thesame exercises in a different order. Either way, every couple of monthssomething has to change.
#2 – Inconsistency
To see real health benefits, you need to be exercising three to five timesa week every week. It is very easy to come up with an excuse not toexercise one day. Maybe the weather isn’t right, or you have anappointment, or you have to run errands. Next thing you know, a week has gone by, and you haven’t exercised.
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Top 5 Most Common Senior Fitness Mistakes
If you usually exercise at 10 a.m., and you have an appointment at 10,then obviously you can’t exercise at that time. How about exercising inthe afternoon? Don’t write off the whole day because you can’t work out at the time you usually do.If you usually exercise Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, and it issnowing on Monday, can you exercise on Tuesday instead? If you get back home from vacation on a Tuesday, can you get in a couple days of exercise that week, or do you just decide to start up again the followingMonday?It only takes a couple weeks without exercise for your body’s fitnesslevels to begin declining. And then when you resume exercise,everything suddenly seems really difficult. The longer you go withoutexercise, the harder it is both mentally and physically to get back on thewagon, so to speak.The best thing to do is to not fall off the wagon in the first place, noteven for a few days. But if you do fall off, you better get back on assoon as possible, because it’s only going to be that much harder nextweek or next month or next year.
#3 – Neglecting Balance
If you are exercising regularly, your workout program probablyconsists mainly of cardiovascular exercise with perhaps a little strengthtraining mixed in. This is a good start, but don’t forget to add in some balancing exercises.Your balance will deteriorate as you age if you don’t use it. Throwingin five or ten minutes a day of balance training can help counter that.Better balance can also improve the overall quality of your workouts because it allows you to do more difficult exercises without feelingunstable.Click here for a FREE “Better Balance” special report
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